Designing Biodiversity−Friendly Landscapes
A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X). This special issue belongs to the section "Land, Biodiversity, and Human Wellbeing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (22 December 2023) | Viewed by 7617
Special Issue Editor
Interests: biogeography; environmental conservation; developing countries; tropical ecosystems; protected areas; Latin America, biodiversity; climate change; landscape change
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Dear Colleagues,
Landscapes worldwide are affected by shifting economic, social, and political factors that alter their land uses, land covers, and spatial ecologies. This Special Issue invites research articles and perspectives on proactive conservation efforts in landscapes utilized for farming, forestry, or settlements, and also for those meant strictly for nature conservation. Given ongoing biophysical changes due to climate change and biotic homogenization, it is likely that many such landscapes will have novel characteristics in the future, with species composition and ecosystem functions different than in the past. Conservation goals would need to be crafted for those conditions, with predictions, evaluation criteria, and management strategies re-envisioned. This Special Issue will provide an overview of the state of knowledge of such approaches in relation to biodiversity concerns.
The biological diversity that may be considered for this Special Issue may include wild species of special interest, the utilized and domesticated species involved in the particular land-use system(s), or entire assemblages of species found interacting in the landscape. Many management tools at the landscape scale include conservation corridors, protected riparian zones or wetlands, and restoration ecology. Their implementation may involve management for endangered species, rewilding, prescribed burns, attention to wild crop relatives, or other activities now characterizing proactive approaches. Additionally, it may be feasible to extend such approaches to their respective counterparts in cities, riverscapes, seascapes, or coastal situations.
Prof. Dr. Kenneth R. Young
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- biological diversity
- utilized landscapes
- conservation landscapes
- land use systems
- climate change
- species of concern
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